EP1292808B1 - Sensoranordnung für eine manoevriereinrichtung - Google Patents

Sensoranordnung für eine manoevriereinrichtung Download PDF

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EP1292808B1
EP1292808B1 EP01926299A EP01926299A EP1292808B1 EP 1292808 B1 EP1292808 B1 EP 1292808B1 EP 01926299 A EP01926299 A EP 01926299A EP 01926299 A EP01926299 A EP 01926299A EP 1292808 B1 EP1292808 B1 EP 1292808B1
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    • G01D—MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G01D5/00—Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable
    • G01D5/12—Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means
    • G01D5/14—Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage
    • G01D5/20—Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member; Means for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for converting; Transducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage by varying inductance, e.g. by a movable armature
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16H—GEARING
    • F16H59/00—Control inputs to control units of change-speed-, or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion
    • F16H59/02—Selector apparatus
    • F16H59/08—Range selector apparatus
    • F16H59/10—Range selector apparatus comprising levers
    • F16H59/105—Range selector apparatus comprising levers consisting of electrical switches or sensors

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  • the present invention relates to a sensor arrangement for a manoeuvring device, and also a manoeuvring device comprising such a sensor arrangement.
  • gearshift lever For traditional manoeuvring devices, such as gearshift levers in motor vehicles, the gearshift lever is often mechanically connected to the system that the gearshift lever is intended to control, in other words the gearbox.
  • gearbox For some more recent systems there are however designs without a mechanical connection between the gearshift lever and the gearbox, in which case sensor arrangements are used to sense the position and the movements of the gearshift lever, in order to thereafter be able to affect the gearbox in a desired manner.
  • Document EP 620 385 A1 shows a manoeuvring arrangement with a detector arrangement in the bottom of the manoeuvring arrangement.
  • the document does not show how such a device could be used to achieve redundancy, and an additional disadvantage with this manoeuvring arrangement is that it by the location of the detector arrangement requires an increased extent in the direction of the manoeuvring lever, something that counteracts the desire for keeping the design of the arrangement as compact and space saving as possible.
  • the international application PCT/SE98/01498 shows a manoeuvring arrangement with a movable code arrangement and detector arrangement which detects positions for the code arrangement. This gives a good function, but has a certain sensitivity for errors in the tolerance at the manufacturing and the mounting of the code plate and the detector arrangement.
  • the purpose of the present invention is thus to provide a sensor arrangement for use in a manoeuvring device, which sensor arrangement should be inexpensive, compact, simple to manufacture and install, at the same time as it should admit redundancy between sensors that are used for detecting the positions and the movements of the gearshift lever.
  • a sensor arrangement for a manoeuvring device which comprises a movably arranged pattern plate with a first pattern which has a first direction of extension, and a sensor plate with a first sensor which is able to detect positions along a main direction for an intersection point between the first pattern and the main direction.
  • the first pattern moves in a first direction of movement, and the intersection point between the first pattern and the main direction will during the movement of the pattern in this first direction of movement show a movement along the main direction, at the same time as the first direction of movement for the pattern intersects the main direction.
  • the first pattern is moved in a second direction of movement in such a way that both the first pattern and the intersection point between the pattern and the main direction of the sensor are made to show a movement along the main direction
  • the sensor used will be able to detect movement of the pattern plate in two different directions, in spite of the fact that the sensor is made solely to detect movement in one direction.
  • One of the patterns is suitably continuous, principally straight and oblong, crosses its respective sensor, and is oblique relative to its respective sensor, but alternatively one of the patterns can be connected, arc-shaped, cross its respective sensor, and be oblique relative to its respective sensor.
  • one of the sensors is also principally straight and oblong, but can alternatively be arc-shaped.
  • one of the directions of movement for one of the patterns is an arc, and one other of the directions of movement for one of the patterns is a principally straight line.
  • Fig. 1 shows a principle behind the invention: A pattern 110 crosses a sensor 105 in an intersection point C.
  • the sensor 105 is able to detect the position of the intersection point C along a first main direction A, coinciding with the extent of the sensor.
  • the pattern 110 moves in a first trajectory B over the sensor 105, and it is desired that the sensor 105 should be able to detect positions of this movement of the intersection point C.
  • the angle ⁇ between the sensor and the pattern would have been perpendicular, which would have led to the sensor not being able to detect positions of the intersection point C during the movement of the pattern in the direction B, since the intersection point C would not have been moving along the direction A then, which is the direction along which the sensor can detect positions of the intersection point C.
  • the pattern 110 is so designed and positioned in relation to the sensor 105 that during the movement of the pattern along the trajectory B, the intersection point C will display a movement along the main direction A, which enables the sensor to detect positions for the intersection point C during the movement of the pattern along the trajectory B.
  • One way of achieving this effect is to let the pattern have a first direction of extension which does not coincide with the movement trajectory of the pattern, which in other words means that the movement trajectory of the pattern and the first direction of extension of the pattern intersect each other.
  • An example of this is shown in Fig. 1, where an oblong, principally straight pattern 110 is arranged so that it intersects the main direction A of the sensor 105.
  • Fig. 2 shows an example of an embodiment 200 of the invention.
  • a first sensor 210 On a plate 205, a first sensor 210 has been arranged, which is a linear sensor which in the present case is arc-shaped.
  • a plate 207 In a plane separated from the plane of the sensor plate 205, a plate 207 is arranged, which in its turn has a first pattern 215 arranged on it, which in the present case has a straight shape.
  • the pattern plate 207 may, by co-operation with a manoeuvring device in a manner which will be described later, revolve around a turning point 245 in the direction indicated with the arrow B.
  • the pattern plate 207 also exhibits an opening 225 which is used at the co-operation between the manoeuvring plate and the manoeuvring device. The function of the opening 225 will also be described later.
  • the pattern 215 is arranged so that it intersects the sensor 210 in an intersection point 220. Since the sensor 210 is a linear sensor, it can detect movement of the intersection point 220 along the trajectory that is defined by the extent of the sensor itself, which in the present case coincides with the trajectory that the pattern 215 and the intersection point 220 will exhibit during the movement of the plate 207 around the turning point 245.
  • the detection of the position of the intersection point 220 made by the sensor 210 during its movement over the sensor is used to detect the corresponding position for the manoeuvring device, in the present case a gearshift lever, by means of which the manoeuvring plate is brought into motion.
  • a co-ordinate system has been drawn into Fig. 2, where the sensor reading for movements and positions of the intersection point 220 drawn on the y-axis, in other words the vertical axis.
  • the arrangement 200 has also been equipped with a second sensor 230, arranged on the sensor plate 205, and also a pattern 235 co-operating with the second sensor, arranged on the pattern plate 207.
  • the second pattern 235 intersects the second sensor 230 in a second intersection point 240, the movements of which during the turning movement of the pattern plate 207 in the direction indicated by the arrow B will be detected by the second sensor 230.
  • the second sensor 230 is straight, and the second pattern 235 is arc-shaped.
  • the arc-shape of the second pattern is slightly oblique in relation to the arc in which the pattern plate 207 during turning moves in, and which is indicated with the arrow B. Due to this design of sensor and pattern, the direction of movement of the second pattern 235 during turning of the pattern plate 207 will intersect the extension of the second sensor, its main direction. Irrespective of this, the intersection point 240 between the second sensor 230 and the second pattern 235 will move along the main direction of the sensor, in other words in the direction in which the sensor 230 is able to detect movement.
  • Fig. 3 the arrangement from Fig. 2 is shown, with the pattern plate turned to a somewhat different position around the turning point.
  • the position of the pattern plate from Fig. 2 is shown with dashed lines. Due to the turn that the pattern plate has made, the first pattern and its intersection point with the first sensor has been moved along the main direction of the first sensor, and resulted in a new position on the y-axis, which is shown in the co-ordinate system.
  • the second pattern has also been moved relative to the second sensor, at which its intersection point with the second sensor has also moved. Due to its design and placement, the second pattern has been parallel displaced relative to the second sensor, at which its intersection point has moved along the sensor, and resulted in a new reading on the x-axis.
  • the new co-ordinate pair that results from the position of the pattern plate in Fig. 3 corresponds to the D-position of the gearshift lever.
  • the arrangement according to the invention is, as described, to be used for example together with the gearshift lever of a vehicle.
  • a gearshift lever is usually movable in two different directions, forwards-backwards, and left-right.
  • the turning movement that is indicated with the arrow B corresponds to one of the directions of movements of the gearshift lever, suitably its movements forwards-backwards.
  • a position is shown for the pattern plate relative to the sensor plate which has been achieved by the movement of the pattern plate relative to the position in Fig. 3 in a direction which is perpendicular to the arrow B, in other words "upwards" in the drawing, which is shown with the arrow U.
  • the movement in this direction of the pattern plate is achieved by the movement of the gearshift lever in the direction left-right.
  • the pattern plate can execute two movements, a turning movement (Fig. 2-3) and a straight linear movement (Fig. 3-4), and the arrangement is equipped with two sensors, where the design of one of the sensors coincides with one of the movements of the pattern plate, and is in other words arc-shaped, and the design of the second sensor coincides with the second movement of the pattern plate, and is in other words straight or straight linear.
  • the pattern that co-operates with respective sensor has the second design, in other words an arc-shaped sensor - straight pattern, straight sensor - an arc-shaped pattern, where both patterns are somewhat oblique relative to their respective sensor, permitting both sensors to detect at both types of movement.
  • Fig. 5 the pattern plate is shown in a position where it relative to the position in Fig. 4 has been somewhat turned.
  • the positions of the pattern plate from Fig. 2-4 is shown with dashed lines. Since the movement which has occurred relative the position in Fig. 4 is a turning movement, it is once again the first pattern which has moved along "its" sensor, where the intersection point between the first pattern and the first sensor also has moved, and caused a new position on the y-axis.
  • the second pattern has been parallel displaced respective to the second sensor, and the intersection point between them has been moved along the second sensor, and resulted in a new position on the x-axis, at which the new co-ordinate pair that is acquired corresponds to a new position of the gearshift lever, for example the so-called minus position for a gearshift lever equipped with sequential gearshifting.
  • a gearshift lever or some other manoeuvring device a cross-section of a manoeuvring device 600 with a pattern plate 611 and sensor plate 607 according to the invention is shown.
  • the manoeuvring device 600 in Fig. 6 is intended to be used for controlling gear positions of a vehicle, and comprises a manoeuvring console 601, which in this embodiment at least partly encloses the manoeuvring device 600.
  • the whole manoeuvring console is not shown in Fig. 6, part 601 and its wall is only partly shown.
  • the manoeuvring device 600 further comprises a manoeuvring lever 603, in this embodiment a gearshift lever, which is mounted to turn around a pivoted joint 605 in the shape of a ball, which pivoted joint 605 enables the gearshift lever 603 to be moved relative to the manoeuvring console in the direction which is indicated by the arrow 1, and also in a corresponding arced movement which is principally perpendicular to the arced movement defined by the arrow 1.
  • a sensor plate 607 In the part of the wall of the console which is shown in Fig. 6 there is a sensor plate 607 according to the invention.
  • the manoeuvring device 600 in the embodiment shown comprises a pattern plate 611 according to the invention, which is intended to move during the movements of the gearshift lever 603 and then to co-operate with the sensor plate 607.
  • the pattern plate 611 is connected to the gearshift lever 603 via a frame 613, a pin 615 and a plate spring 617.
  • both the sensor plate 607 and the pattern plate 611 are flat and parallel to each other.
  • the pattern plate 611 is connected with the frame 613 of the gearshift lever 603 via a pin 615 which engages an opening in the plate 611, and there creates the rotational centre 245 which has been shown in Fig. 2-5 above.
  • the pin 615 extends in a (not shown) slot in the console wall 601 and is biased in a direction against the console wall 601 with the help of a spring element 619.
  • the plate 611 is connected to the frame 613 with the help of a plate spring 617.
  • This plate spring 617 keeps the plate 611 in the same plane as the sensor plate 607, and engages the opening 225 shown in Fig. 2-4 into the sensor plate 611, but not into the wall of the console 601, which is shown schematically with the connection 621.
  • This connection 621 may be designed in many different ways, for example a plate spring 617 may engage a depression in the plate 611 or, in a preferred embodiment, by a pin which engages an opening in the plate 611 without engaging the console wall 601.
  • One of the directions of movements which is possible with the gearshift lever 603 is indicated with the arrow 1 in Fig. 6, and corresponds to movement in the direction left-right of the lever.
  • the gearshift lever 603 moves according to the arrow 1
  • the pattern plate 611 will move along the console wall 601, over the sensor plate 607, in the direction which is shown with the arrow 1', due to the fact that the pin 615 extends in a (not shown) slot in the direction of the arrow 1' in the console wall 601 and then brings the pattern plate 611 in this direction of movement.
  • the reason for the pin 615 being spring loaded in the direction against the console wall 601 is to retain the pin 615 in the (not shown) slot during its movement indicated by the arrow 1'.
  • This movement of the pattern plate corresponds to the movement that the pattern plate executes between Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 above.
  • the principally two-dimensional movement of the gearshift lever 603 in the direction of the arrow 1 is thus transformed into a principally one-dimensional movement of the pattern plate 611 in the direction of the arrow 1'.
  • the gearshift lever 603 is moved in the direction which is principally perpendicular to the direction indicated by the arrow 1 in Fig. 9, the pattern plate 611 will execute the rotational movement which has been described above, in other words the movement which the pattern plate has executed between Fig. 2-3 and Fig. 4-5.
  • Fig. 7 a more detailed exploded view of a preferred embodiment of a manoeuvring device 700 according to the invention is shown.
  • the reference numbers in Fig. 7 corresponds to those in Fig. 6.
  • Fig. 7 it is also shown how the pin 615 is designed in more detail, and how it co-operates with the pattern plate 611.
  • the pin 615 is so designed that the part 790 of the pin which is in mechanical contact with the pattern plate 611 is shaped as a slice of an imaginary sphere.
  • the parts of the patter plate 611 which are brought into mechanical contact with this part of the pin 615 are on their behalf shaped like the inside of a corresponding imaginary sphere.
  • the pin 615 extends in a (not shown) slot in the console wall.
  • at least the part 780 of the pin that extends in the slot is shaped as a thinner part which protrudes from the centre of the part 790 of the pin that is brought into mechanical contact with the pattern plate 611. This is also shown in Fig. 7. In principal however, the whole imaginary sphere could be comprised in the pin 615.
  • Fig. 8 shows the principle for the co-operation of the pin 615 with the pattern plate 611 in more detail.
  • the part 790 of the pin 615 which is brought into mechanical contact with the pattern plate 611 is shaped like a slice of an imaginary sphere 835, which is shown with dashed lines.
  • the end-point 780 of the pin 615 is shaped as a part of a smaller sphere 885 which also is shown with dashed lines.
  • the pivoting axis 820 for the movements of the pattern plate 611 passes. It is advantageous to design the arrangement with the centre of the smaller sphere constituting an intersection point for the two pivoting axes 810, 820, for all possible positions and movements of the gearshift lever 603.
  • the direction in which the pin 615 has its main extension coincides with the pivoting axis 810 for the lever 603.
  • the pivoting axis 810 for the lever 603 extends, as shown in Fig. 8, through the centre of the pin 615 in the longitudinal direction of the pin.
  • Fig. 9 the co-operation of the pin 615 with the pattern plate 611 when the gearshift lever 603 is in another position than shown in Fig. 8 is shown.
  • Fig. 9 the spherical shape of the surface 825 of the pattern plate 611 that is brought into mechanical contact with the pin 915 is evident.
  • the other element 621 which co-operates at the movements of the pattern plate is for all movements of the gearshift lever 603 parallel to the pivoting axis 610 of the gearshift lever 603.
  • the invention is not limited to the examples of embodiments shown above but can be varied freely within the scope of the patent claims below.
  • the sensor principle that is used is preferably magnetic sensors and patterns in a material which these sensors, can perceive, but may be any co-operating code devices and sensors, for example a light emitting or light permeable plate and light sensitive sensors.
  • To let the extension of the sensors coincide with the possible movements of the pattern plate, and to let the pattern of respective sensor be oblique respective to the movement is a design that of course may be replaced with a design where the patterns coincides with the movements and the sensors are oblique.
  • the code arrangement and detector arrangement have in the description above been shown as plane plates, but it is also conceivable with other designs. Since the movements of the gearshift lever in the example takes place along a curved surface, a dome-shaped detector device which detects movements along a dome-shaped plane of a code arrangement may be conceivable.

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  1. Sensoranordnung (100, 200) für eine Manövriereinrichtung, mit einer bewegbar angeordneten Musterplatte (207) mit einem ersten Muster (215, 235), das eine erste Erstreckungsrichtung aufweist, und mit einer Sensorplatte (205) mit einem ersten Sensor (210, 230), der Stellungen entlang einer Hauptrichtung (A) für einen Schnittpunkt (C, 220, 240) zwischen dem ersten Muster und der Hauptrichtung erfassen kann, wenn sich das erste Muster bei einer ersten Bewegung der Musterplatte in einer ersten Bewegungsrichtung (B) bewegt, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Schnittpunkt (C, 220, 240) während der Bewegung des Musters (215, 235) in dieser ersten Bewegungsrichtung eine Bewegung entlang der Hauptrichtung (A) zu derselben Zeit zeigt, zu der die erste Bewegungsrichtung (B) des Musters die Hauptrichtung kreuzt.
  2. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 1, bei der sich das erste Muster (215, 235) bei einer zweiten Bewegung der Musterplatte (207) in einer zweiten Bewegungsrichtung bewegt, bei der sowohl der Schnittpunkt (C, 220, 240) als auch das erste Muster eine Bewegung entlang der Hauptrichtung (A) zeigen.
  3. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei der das erste Muster (215, 235) so ausgebildet und mit Bezug auf den ersten Sensor (210, 230) so angeordnet ist, dass
    - das erste Muster bei einer Bewegung in jede seiner beiden Richtungen eine kontinuierliche Erfassung in dem ersten Sensor hervorrufen kann und dass
    - mindestens eine Reihe von Stellungen in der Bewegung entlang der beiden Richtungen des ersten Musters eine unzweideutige Erfassung an dem ersten Sensor hervorruft.
  4. Sensoranordnung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, des Weiteren mit einem zweiten Muster (215, 235) und einem zweiten Sensor (210, 230), wobei das zweite Muster und der zweite Sensor miteinander in derselben Weise wie das erste Muster und der erste Sensor zusammenarbeiten, wodurch eine Redundanzfähigkeit der Sensoranordnung zum Feststellen der Bewegung und Stellungen der ersten Platte (207) in sowohl der ersten als auch der zweiten Richtung erreicht wird.
  5. Sensoranordnung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der beide Bewegungsrichtungen des ersten Musters in einer Ebene liegen, die durch die Sensorplatte definiert ist.
  6. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der eines der Muster kontinuierlich, im Wesentlichen geradlinig, länglich ist, seinen zugehörigen Sensor kreuzt und schräg zu seinem zugehörigen Sensor ist.
  7. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der eines der Muster kontinuierlich, bogenförmig ist, seinen zugehörigen Sensor kreuzt und schräg zu seinem zugehörigen Sensor ist.
  8. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der einer der Sensoren im Wesentlichen geradlinig und länglich ist.
  9. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der einer der Sensoren bogenförmig ist.
  10. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der eine der Bewegungsrichtungen für eines der Muster ein Bogen ist.
  11. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der eine der Bewegungsrichtungen für eines der Muster eine im Wesentlichen geradlinige Linie ist.
  12. Sensoranordnung nach Anspruch 4, bei der eines der Muster in einem magnetischen Material gestaltet ist und einer der Sensoren ein linearer magnetischer Sensor ist.
  13. Sensoranordnung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der sich das erste Muster infolge der Bewegung eines Manövrierhebels, mit dem die Musterplatte verbunden ist, bewegt.
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